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ervice à la Française is a french organization whose main goal is to globally export the talents and expertise of the
''Meilleurs Ouvriers de France'' (Best skilled French-workers) to provide with trainings and to implement projects.
The « Meilleurs Ouvriers de France » are the best French Craftsmen related to 240 crafts, including; Best Chef, Best
Florist, Best Landscaper; all of them being competition-winners and personally awarded by the President of French
Republic.
Zoom on the “Meilleurs Ouvriers de France” (MOF)
T
he ''Meilleurs Ouvriers de France'' competition was created back in 1924 to
promote ''the high qualification in the exercise of a professional activity in the
artisanal, commercial, service, industrial or agricultural field''. Only the highly
skilled craftsmen obtain this medal, hence the admiration it arises. This blue-white-red
collar is a dream for many craftsmen in France and abroad.
Frédéric FAURE
Meilleur Ouvrier de France
Landscape gardener
Founding member of SAF
The competition is divided into 16 groups and assembles 240 crafts including catering
and hospitality (hotel industry), construction and architectural heritage, manufacturing,
clothing, jewelry, music, and food. The cuisine-gastronomy class remains the most
sought-after an distinguishes the Chefs.
List of Meilleurs Ouvriers de France’s crafts
Catering and hospitality
• Chef (gastronomy)
• Maître d’hôtel
• Sommelier
• Barman
• Gouvernante
• Receptionist
Food professions
• Pastry chef
• Charcutier and catering
(Delicatessen)
• Butcher
• Baker
• Ice cream maker
• Chocolatier
• Cheesemonger
• Fishmonger
• Primeur
Building trades, heritage
architectural and works public
• Carpentry and timber construction
• Joinery
• Cover-ornemanist
• Plumbing, sanitary installation,
fontainerie
• Floor tile
• Building smog
• HVAC-heating
• Plaster trades-gypserie
• Masonry
• Art mosaic
• Stone crafts
• Decorative mirrors
• Interior painting decorations
• Marble work
• Metalwork-locksmith
• Art ironwork
• Engraver-ornemaniste
• Architectural models
• Solier
• Occupation of the pool
Textile and leather crafts
• Draftsmen for textiles and
wallpapers
• Weaving, silk weaving
• Fabric printing
• Dyeing
• Carpet restoration and tapestries
• Cleaning, primer
• Gainerie and gainerie d’art
• Saddlery
Housing professions: wood
and furnishing
• Cabinetmaking
• Joinery in seats
• Turner and torsor on wood
• Wood sculpture
• Restorer of furniture
• Tapestry-decoration
• Upholstery
• Framer-doreur on wood
Restorer of paintings
Rentoileur
• Marquetry
• Cooperage
• Basketry
• Pipier
• Traditional lacquer
• Shipbuilding wood and composite
materials
Metal crafts
• Art foundry
• Ornamental bronze
• Goldsmith
• Art dinanderie
Industry crafts
• Boilermaking
• Sheet metal work
• Body repairer automotive
• Manual welding of metals
• Tooling, mechanical prototyping
• Electrical engineering
• Forging
• Industrial models
• Art and technique of materials
synthesis
• Modeling, construction
• Conception assisted by tooling
computer products mechanical
• Automotive technology
• Energy services trades
Earth and glass crafts
• Porcelain modeler
• Porcelain decoration
• Decoration on faience
• Glassware, crystal
• Art stained glass
• Santons
• Pottery
• Ceramic restoration
• Glass blowing with the torch
Clothing professions
• Modiste
• Tailor man
• lingerie, corsetry, bra
• Ready to wear couture-day
• Ready to wear couture-evening
Fashion and beauty
• Lace
• Hand embroidery
• Glove
• Shoes
• Leather goods
• Hairdressing
• Aesthetics, make-up art
Jewellery
• Jewellery
• Jewellery, precious metals
• Polishing in jewellery
• Diamond
• Lapidary, coloured stones
• Fine jewellery crimping
Techniques of precision
• Surgical instruments
• Eyewear
• Dental prosthesis
• Watchmaker-restaurateur
• Armory
Crafts of engraving
• Model engraving, heraldry
• Engravin ornamental engraving
• Engraving on copper and steel
• Glyptic
• Enamelling
Businesses of communication,
multimedia, audiovisual
• Printing, communication graphics,
multimedia
• Binding
• Slab on the edge
• Gilding
• Graphics, Photography
• Calligraphy
• Illumination
• Digital Imaging
• Animated Image Trades
Crafts related to music
• Lutherie-archery
• Luthrie-guitar
• Traditional instruments
Agriculture and Landscaping
• Landscaped gardener
• Blacksmith
• Saddlery, upholstery, harness
• Floral art
• Food safety
Commerce and services
• Energy efficiency consulting
• Finishing decoration
• Optics and eyewear
• Taxidermy
• Animal grooming
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Service à la Française trainers: ''Meilleurs Ouvriers de France''